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Mexico's elemental magic was skillfully woven into the museum by its architect, Pedro Ramírez Váquez, 46, a team of 40 specialists, and hundreds of artists in wood and stone. Galleries surround an airy grand patio, roofed by an aluminum umbrella that keeps visitors dry in the season when Tlaloc works overtime. Like an upside-down fountain, a sun-stippled waterfall splashes freely onto the patio floor through the umbrella's center, veiling its only support, a bronze-covered column faced with modern interpretations of the rigid stylizations of pre-Hispanic imagery. Fire spurts...
Some chanted: "Viva el General! Viva el General!" Others cried: "Thief! Assassin! Son of a whore!" As police held back the crowd of 3,000, the armored van carrying Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 50, from his jail cell pulled up in front of Caracas' Supreme Court building. It had been more than seven years since the pudgy strongman was overthrown, and last week, after well-heeled exile in the U.S. and 19 not-too-austere months in Venezuelan prisons, Pérez Jiménez was finally being brought to trial...
...rez Jiménez seemed as buoyant as ever and just as fat. In Venezuelan jails he has regained the 50 lbs. that he lost in a Miami cell during the extradition proceedings. In the small courtroom, he chatted jocularly with the old cronies and reporters who swarmed around him. Even after the 15 justices had taken their places and the prosecuting attorney started droning through the 417-page indictment, P.J. continued to whisper to newsmen, who had not been allowed to interview him since his return. Among other courtroom comments, some of which were broadcast live on nationwide...
...that all legalities are observed, and P.J.'s lawyers are planning an elaborate defense based on the argument that, since Congress authorized all appropriations and supervised the spending during P.J.'s regime, their client cannot be held responsible for the missing millions. In a way, Pérez Jiménez would make good his oft-repeated pledge: "Venezuela has not heard the last...
...Mateos feels that mutual respect and genuine friendship have rarely been higher. One of the "happy results" of the friendship was the settlement of the century-old El Chamizal border dispute, centering on a 600-acre patch of land between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez (TIME, July...